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Re-thinking Translations

Writer Karessa Ramos ponders whether translation is really a good idea. Or is it just…

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A Faded Summer Solstice

Poet Karessa Malaya pens a heartbreaking parting of ways with a lover some summers ago.…

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Column: Home in an aisle (a trip to the Asian store)

For writer Karessa Ramos, a shopping trip to an Asian grocery or a Filipino sari…

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Column: Ulila sa Wika

Poet and writer Karessa Ramos examines our longing for speaking and hearing our mother-tongue while…

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Column: The polychromes of beauty

Writer and poet Karessa Ramos looks back to Philippine summers confronted with questions, doubts and…